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La actriz Geraldine Chaplin y el director de fotografía Patricio Castilla de Majer. / Actress Geraldine Chaplin and director of photography Patricio Castilla de Majer.
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Las pintoras cubanas Alicia Leal y Flora Fong, junto a la “novia del feeling” Omara Portuondo / Cuban painters Alicia Leal and Flora Fong, along with the “bride of feeling” Omara Portuondo.
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José Carlos de Santiago, Presidente Editor de Grupo Excelencias junto a Alexander Delgado, del afamado grupo musical cubano Gente D’Zona. / Jose Carlos de Santiago, CEO of Excelencias Group, along with Alexander Delgado, a member of famous Cuban band Gente D’Zona.
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Al final, modelos, invitados y cubanos se sumaron a una auténtica conga en una arrolladora marcha por el Prado. / At the end, guests, models and Cubans joined together in an authentic Cuban conga that gathered together in an overpowering march along the El Prado.

Just when the sunset crowned with gold the lions (Chanel´s fetish animal) statues that watch over the Paseo del Prado, a chant for the orishas was the start of the mythical and historical fashion parade of this renowned fashion house, the first to take place in Latin America.

It seemed that the first downpour of May would fall on the accredited press just minutes before the beginning of the fashion show. However, showing genuine complicity between St. Peter and Mademoiselle Gabrielle, the clouds flew away and the light was perfect to take pictures.

The parade was not short of garments that were reminiscent of the bright colors of the baroque facades of the historical core of the city, or the tobacco and cigar shades that reminded us of Wilfredo Lam´s paintings, the Cuban Picasso, or the “Havana cigars” string purse, a sort of playful wink to “Cocohiba”.

Combining the masculine-feminine, terribly chic with a dash of scoundrel. Chanel´s 2016/17 Cruise Collection, helmed by the “káiser” Karl Lagerfeld, presented a series of designs whose underlying theme is a virtuoso interpretation of the guayabera, the traditional Cuban shirt with pockets, shoulder tabs and flat pleats, which Lagerfeld mischievously nicknames it the “Cuban tux”.

A long masculine jacket over wide trousers with turn-ups, flat two-tone shoes, a “guayabera” turned into black transparent organza blouse worn with a very tightly belted “sfumato” skirt and even models that recalled the military with shorts and jacket suits in denim and khaki tweed, a parka in fringed tweed, or a totally embroidered sequined black beret, all these were evocations of Cuba found in many designs.

The show, with a number of select guests from inside and outside the country, had its own color in the thousands of people who, from the Prado balconies, were able to watch in amazement. Surprised by the magnificence and a fashion that is not a common sight in Cuba.